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Talk to her about it. Ask her why she is doing that and tell her how it makes you feel. Do you best to not get angry during that convo.

As a corollary, not doomscroling social media and news articles helps immeasurably. Seriously, stop it, it is not good for one’s health.

Spend more time doing things you enjoy.

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Just do what you want, and don’t get caught up in the labels.

O, damnit. Not the last bastion of hope!

Edit: 100% serious. Like Rossmann, Brother was the go-to brand.

I think they mean profits are 545% of costs. Which would put revenue at 645% of costs.

Profit margin = (revenue - costs)/revenue = 545/645 = 84.5% profit margin.

So, yeah, headline is obtuse as hell and profit margins that high are either deliberately lies or grossly exploitative and uncompetitive.

Yeah, kids are darn expensive. I’m damn happy my parents decided to have me despite that fact. :)

To answer OP’s question, also doing better than them at the same age. Big part of it was investing early (time-value of money is a massive deal) and keeping the same car forever. My parents have spent quite a bit on cars over the years, it is probably their largest reducible expense. I bought a lightly used crossover a long time ago, and it’s got a long life ahead of it.

If they aren’t getting much traction somewhere, but are spending outsized resources there, it makes sense to redirect the manhours elsewhere.

Do note that SSDs are orders of magnitude slower than RAM (it’s why you have both, and not just a giant SSD). You can feel the machine come to a screeching halt the moment swap is used for active tasks.

Yeah, it is basically never worth the effort to de-solder and re-solder RAM. It’s why people rail so hard on it and why you should pay attention to it’s (non-) existence next computer you buy. It hurts you years down the line when what should have been a cheap upgrade is turned into simply binning what you own and buying new.

Russia is in their 4th year invading a European country and the US is looking to back out from their support in the defense of Europe. Gotta do what you gotta do.

Thunderbird would be the go-to product for emails.

The East is in a poor state because The West illegally annexed it

Wut? Germany was a singular country until the Soviet Union occupied half of it. Re-uniting the occupied territories with the rest of the country is literally the opposite of an illegal annexation.

If someone is feeling locked into the Microsoft ecosystem, empowering them to unshackle themselves from a large part of it is important. It makes the transition later so, so much easier when you don’t need to figure out OS-agnostic softwares across the board.

That said, if you are thinking of ripping the band-aid off all at once, I am 100% on board with it. Just not everyone is ready for it.

‘swap to linux’ o’clock

On a 100% unrelated note. This reminded me of a Half Life / Eve colab video: Clear Skies. It’s hot drop o’clock!

You don’t even have to for this one. Just use Libre Office, it supports every notable OS. Been using it for years.

East Germany never fully recovered after Soviet occupation and the desolation the Soviets created. Germany has invested heavily rebuilding the east, but there is a constant brain drain, causing western migration of every German capable enough. This has left the east in a poor state they still have yet to recover from. The people in that region know this, but it doesn’t change the fact they don’t feel good about the lingering differences, which influences their voting behaviors heavily.

Linux instructions:

Relevant commands:

• nordvpn settings - lists out settings
• nordvpn set [SettingName] [NewValue] - sets the relavent setting
• nordvpn whitelist add subnet [Mask] - whitelists the specified subnet to allow in traffic originating there
• nordvpn d and nordvpn c - to disconnect and connect
• ifconfig - gets your current IP

Bringing it all together:

1. Run ifconfig to get your current IP. It’s most likely 192.168.1.xxx

2. Run nordvpn whitelist add subnet 192.168.1.0/24 to add your subnet to the whitelist (change the first three sections of the subnet to match what your IP is in the first command if it is different)

3. Run nordvpn settings to view all settings and verify they look right, you should see your subnet in the whitelist section now

4. Run nordvpn c to reconnect and apply your new settings

Now LAN connections can reach your computer, even while it is connected to the VPN. For incomming WAN connections, verify port forwarding is setup on your router to point to the computer.

Optional:

5. Run nordvpn set analytics disabled to disable analytics

NordVPN can be set to allow LAN traffic through. So, if you setup port forwarding on your router, which it sounds like you already did, it will then allow that LAN traffic in.

Yeah, people are overall pretty comfortable right now. I’m not sure why we should expect a revolt.

‘You specifically bring up European colonists settling in America. How did that turn out for the Indians?’

Seriously, this is probably the worst example to push for illegal immigration I can think of.